The Modern Girl.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10628, 3 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

The Modern Girl.

Just now the doings of the "modern girl,";; as the young woman of, the hour ig"- v talled; is being made a text for , the most melancholy sermons. She is, according to the mouth of "many witnesses, :a -deplorably inefficient person. The -headmaster of Eton recently, joined in tthe discussion of her misdemeanors, and •made the statement that, .as- -English, home'dife - jvas /weakening, girls should lie taught to take their place in the i home. ; As a/matter of fact,-, there never was a time when girls were more capable. The wajs of ordinary education liavo given them an intellectual /equipment and a capacity for, quick thought i -which- were once, only possessed- by- afew of the-sex."'This doubtless has-its !. result-in. ambitions for work outside the -home,: as .well assfor careers away from home-making. But, while the conditions of life ancl the proportion of the sexes - remain as -they are now,there will'always be a 1 number-of women-for •whom independent occupation is necessary.- :. Experience • has proved, alrea'dy that the ability to. make a career for ■herself- does not unfit a woman for triumphs in the art of the home. -